Of the particle reactions I know of, the lower-energy state is a great stand-in for the higher-entropy state. Big particles decay into jets of little particles, excited atoms emit photons unless forbidden, and so on. Since energy is conserved, I guess they're implicitly talking about low energy density when they say low-energy. More @Wikipedia
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